Re: Team Tactics

[Steve Ames <steve@ns1.cioe.com>]

[much interesting spew deleted for brevity and to make room for my own]

Combat is fluid. The belief that people can individually plan out the
next four seconds without any regard for what everyone else will be
doing (table talk) is a little questionable. In a given situation I
expect to react to others in a split second. If something changes I
expect planned actions to change as well. If I pull out my call book
and say: Plan B!... then I wait out the round because no one can respond
to my call until the next round. Then, according to Plan I pull open
a door so that bob can charge through and kill stuff. But when the door
opens its a plasma inferno in there... bobs preplanned action is to
charge in. His _LOCKED_ action. That is insane. One look at that and he
should be screaming "SHUT THE DOOR" not running into it with sword drawn.

But locked actions are locked actions. *sigh* This is where our tactics
skill comes in. To some extent it allows us to react to one another and
to the situation. Circumventing an otherwise insanely static part of the
rules.

						-Steve